6 editor picks across India.
6 italian restaurants worth the trip across India, editor-ranked. All cuisines in India.
Chef Ritu Dalmia's Diva has cooked Italian food in Greater Kailash 2, Delhi, since 2000 and marked 25 years in 2025 with a menu of its best-loved plates.
OrderDuck carpaccio, or the warm salad of prawns poached in Marsala and orange.
TipBook ahead for dinner in the M Block market; ask which dishes from the 25th-anniversary menu are still running.
1932 Trevi is an Italian restaurant in the lawns of Santha Bagh on JLN Marg, Jaipur, with hand-rolled pasta, Indian dishes and peacocks roaming the garden.
OrderHand-rolled pasta such as the Calabrian rigatoni, plus the jackfruit korma tacos.
TipAsk for a table outdoors in The Bagh or the Tuscan Alley; the bar room and the scarlet Vanity Room are the indoor options.
Bar Palladio is an Italian restaurant and bar in the gardens of Narain Niwas Palace in Jaipur, with all-blue interiors and tented canopies among peacocks.
OrderClassic Italian dishes from the menu, with a cocktail under the tented canopies.
TipOn Sundays the doors open at 12:30 for lunch; on other days at 16:30, so it suits an evening visit.
The Big Chill in Khan Market, Delhi, is a busy Italian cafe known for penne vodka, chicken cacciatore and a dessert list led by Mississippi mudpie.
OrderThe Mississippi mudpie, a dense chocolate pie that anchors the dessert counter.
TipBook before a weekend visit, or expect a wait with the Khan Market crowds; save room for the dessert counter.
In a converted ancestral home on Ramesh Marg, C-Scheme, Jaipur, Opera is an Italian restaurant known for Neapolitan pizza and hand-rolled pasta.
OrderThe Neapolitan pizza and the hand-rolled pasta, with the burrata sourdough to start.
TipChoose a table among the bougainvillea in the garden for winter lunches or summer dinners; the rooms keep much of the old house.
Giardino is the Italian restaurant at the Jai Mahal Palace in Civil Lines, Jaipur, with pizza dough made fresh each day, plus antipasti, pasta and dolci.
OrderA pizza from the in-house dough, with antipasti to start and a dolci to finish.
TipLunch runs 12:30 to 14:30 and dinner 19:00 to 23:00; Travel + Leisure Asia describes candlelit evening tables, so ask for one.
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